How To Make A Parting Tool

With practice can turn beads with this tool.

How to make a parting tool. Slowly advance the cross-slide crank until the tool starts cutting into the metal. Using a piece of HSS ground the the required shape and those using carbide inserts. Being a contractor I just happen to have a box of old blades I can use for making my parting tool.

Lower cost of ownership. To ensure the parting tool is perpendicular to the face of the chuck you can use a 1-2-3 block whose surfaces are ground to be parallel to one another. On the bottom end you make a tenon with your parting tool.

Both a DPT FPT have better reach and control over the tool rest than thin parting tools. Parting is done with a special tool. For reliability and durability select from a wide variety of tools including cut-off blades cut-off inserts indexable grooving blades and more.

A 14 parting tool with flat sides and bottom does not nick up the tool rest as much as a DPT can bind in the cut until you learn how to use it. You dont need to buy a grinding kit or sharpening system or multiple tools to achieve your desired result. Never sharpen your tools again.

Locating the insert in the tool is a quick and easy operation. Loosen the tool post align the edge of the toolholder flush with the 1-2-3 block and re-tighten the tool post. Eddies first video on making a parting tool was to start off by using a lawn edger blade and reshaping it with a grinder then he did a second video on using sawzall blades or reciprocal saw blades.

When one side of the cutter gets dull just rotate it to a new surface. Then turn your blank round and figure out where you want the joint on your box to go. In less than an hour.